Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Before the election, the Prime Minister told the 2012 RSL national conference:

If it's inadequate just to lift Centrelink pensions by the Consumer Price Index, it's even less fair to apply solely that index to those who have risked their lives for our country. Loyalty goes both ways.

Why then has the Prime Minister broken this promise and implemented CPI-only indexation for the pensions of 280,000 veterans and their dependants—war widows, orphans?